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hribecek
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 Message 809 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 3:15pm | IP Logged 
maxval wrote:


hribecek wrote:
Sam meg akarja találni őket és ezért követte a ködbe a hegy tetején.


Nem lehet érteni, hogy miről van itt szó:

Meg akarta találni őket? Kiket?
S kit követett Sam?

Sam meg akarta találni az állatokat, amik csinálják a hangokat. Sam követte a hangokat.


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 Message 810 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 3:22pm | IP Logged 
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FYI: “akció” in Hungarian is also used for meaning “sales promotion” in shops. I had a funny case with this. Latin-American people asked me: “what kind of strange actions happens in all shops in Budapest? why is there an AKCIÓ text in almost every shop? what they do inside??”
It has the same meaning in Czech and I vaguely remember also wondering what actions/activities happen in the supermarket and that it must be something interesting because it was advertised everywhere!


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 Message 811 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 3:29pm | IP Logged 
maxval wrote:

hribecek wrote:
„Értem. Rendben, már el kellene mennem. Szia Stefan.”
„Szia Richard, szerencsére és köszi.”


Why szerencsére?

Oops, I meant to say 'good luck', so 'sok szerencsét'?

He's wishing him good luck because Richard is about to embark on a dangerous search for help.
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 Message 812 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 4:26pm | IP Logged 
hribecek wrote:
maxval wrote:


hribecek wrote:
Szóval, Terry még feküdt az oldalon a hegyen és lehet, hogy problémája a szívével van.


In this version it means: “Terry was still lying on the side, in the mountain, and maybe his problem was with the heart” – what did you want to say?.

Terry was still lying on the side of the mountain and it's possible that he has a heart problem (had a heart attack).



Terry még feküdt a hegyoldalban, s valószínűleg problémája volt a szívével.
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 Message 813 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 4:27pm | IP Logged 
hribecek wrote:
maxval wrote:

hribecek wrote:
„Értem. Rendben, már el kellene mennem. Szia Stefan.”
„Szia Richard, szerencsére és köszi.”


Why szerencsére?

Oops, I meant to say 'good luck', so 'sok szerencsét'?

He's wishing him good luck because Richard is about to embark on a dangerous search for help.


Yes, "sok szerencsét" is OK, it is completely different from "szerencsére".

Edited by maxval on 30 October 2011 at 4:35pm

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 Message 814 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 4:34pm | IP Logged 
hribecek wrote:
maxval wrote:


hribecek wrote:
Sam meg akarja találni őket és ezért követte a ködbe a hegy tetején.


Nem lehet érteni, hogy miről van itt szó:

Meg akarta találni őket? Kiket?
S kit követett Sam?

Sam meg akarta találni az állatokat, amik csinálják a hangokat. Sam követte a hangokat.



In this form is OK. You can omit subjects and objects from a sentence, if from previous sentences it is clear what is omitted. If it is not clear, then you have to specify it/them.

Something FYI:

"Sam meg akarta találni az állatokat, amik csinálják a hangokat." an alternate version of this would be: "Sam meg akarta találni az állatokat, amelyek csinálják a hangokat." Even "akik" is acceptable.

30-40 years ago the two versions were not compatible. Now native speakers dont make usually distinction.

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 Message 815 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 4:38pm | IP Logged 
And an English question from me:

How native English speakers say: "more narrow" or "narrower"? Maybe the first is American, and the second is British???


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 Message 816 of 1549
30 October 2011 at 5:21pm | IP Logged 
maxval wrote:
And an English question from me:

How native English speakers say: "more narrow" or "narrower"? Maybe the first is American, and the second is British???


I noticed this question in your corrections but forgot to reply to it, sorry.

I would say "narrower" and I doubt a British person would ever say "more narrow" (although this type of 'mistake' is quite common from native speakers), as you said.

A third option that a British (at least in South East England!) person would say, would be "more narrower"! It's a grammatical mistake obviously but quite common in colloquial speech.

I'm not sure if Americans say "more narrow" but I can imagine that maybe they do.

Chung, if you're reading this, what do Americans say?



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